Pardon my ignorance, but I'm jumping into Premiere feet first with little prior experience. I'm working on some digitized Super 8 footage, but everything I have is currently still in negative form. I'm trying to apply a few initial effects to see the footage properly (desaturation and inversion), but I cannot seem to apply effects to Source clips if they are not already in the timeline. As you can probably understand, this makes splicing a film together rather difficult.

I was using a copy of Final Cut Express earlier tonight, and that seemed to communite with the source clips (i.e. apply initial effects) rather well. Does Premiere have the same functionality? This is quite frustrating.

Thanks for the help, everyone! Looks like I'll have to find another way to do this.

In regards to having a negative print - the camera print is negative. It's Super-8 Tri-X developed to a negative instead of a positive. There is no existing positive print, so the negative print was telecined.

Okay, thanks. The output files from the telecine (negative) have a blue cast, so they still need to be desaturated. The contrast is not set properly, but in the vast majority of scenes nothing is clipped.

I think I'll just export all of the files into a positive clip. Is there any easy way to imprint the time codes from Premiere?

You do not want to burn in the Time code.... that will make it unuseable in the edit.

If you export an intermediate from the timeline..there will be timecode in the new clip(s). The TC will match the timeline TC. You can change that if need be. You can also "Post Time code" to the clip(s) later

You do not want to burn in the Time code.... that will make it unuseable in the edit.

If you export an intermediate from the timeline..there will be timecode in the new clip(s). The TC will match the timeline TC. You can change that if need be. You can also "Post Time code" to the clip(s) later

Got it - thanks!

Jim - Okay, I understand now. Reason for not making a positive print was purely financial - more film, more processing, more time.

Bill - I'm working at the local community darkroom, and they have a few chemicals on-hand, including dektol, D-76, fixer, etc. They don't have any bleach available, so it's just easier to process into a negative. Quite welcome for the clarification - thanks for the interest!

Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions! I'll create some intermediate files and go from there.

Bill - I'm working at the local community darkroom, and they have a few chemicals on-hand, including dektol, D-76, fixer, etc. They don't have any bleach available, so it's just easier to process into a negative. Quite welcome for the clarification

Dave,

You are bringing back memories of my darkroom days - stop that!

I would have to dig deeply into my B/W cine processing documents to pull the bleach formula, and then the redevelopment method. Seems (we ARE talking ~ 40 years ago), that one did a "flash" between the bleach and clearing step, and the redevelopment. Been too long, for me to go off quoting the steps now.

I had not considered that you were shooting B/W, and were stopping at the processing to negative. That was the last thing on my mind, when I read your thread, and Craig's Reply on "negative."